EAN: 9783631592144

THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY - BARBARA RÖCKL KARTONIE...

This study is concerned with the function of the mirror metaphor in texts by three modern
African-American authors. Wright's photo-text 12 Million Black Voices  Baldwin's early essays 
and Ellison's novel Invisible Man go back to the time before the Civil Rights Movement when
their authors envisioned social and cultural integration in the American melting pot rather
than a separate literature of their own. In this context the mirror metaphor leads directly to
the thematic core of each text in which issues of visibility  social recognition  the formation
of self-images  and the power of stereotypes play central roles. In close readings the author
shows how the mirror metaphor functions as a means to model the relationship between self and
other and serves to shift the readers' attention to the complex  yet largely invisible
machinery of representation.

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